It has come to the point where Wendy Rogers, the Arizona state GOP Senate Leader who has been pushing the election "fraudit" claims, needs her own thread. She has become so unhinged lately that it is almost entertaining -- except that she is a public official with significant power in the state. It has reached the point however where her own party in the Senate can no longer ignore it and a state Senate ethics investigation has been opened . Or in other words -- to use the old time term -- she is Cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs. Arizona Senate probes lawmaker who suggested Buffalo shooting was a false flag Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers is at the center of an ethics investigation stemming from her response to the racist massacre. https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/wendy-rogers-buffalo-shooting-rcna29194 Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Trump-endorsed member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, is yet again at the center of an ethics investigation related towhite nationalism. On Monday, Arizona’s Senate Ethics Committee opened an investigation to determine whether one of Rogers’ social media posts responding to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday was “inappropriate of an elected official with this body.” Arizona state Sen. Rick Gray, another Republican, made the motion to investigate Rogers’ post on Monday after a Democrat-led effort to expel her from the Legislature failed. So, what did the bigoted, self-proclaimed “sweet grandma” do this time? Immediately following the massacre, which left 10 people dead, Rogers posted on the social media platform Telegram what looked like a conspiracy theory alleging the shooting had been staged by the government. “Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo,” Rogers wrote, appropriating Black slang to seemingly deflect blame from the white nationalist wholivestreamed the massacre and released an apparent manifesto explaining his hate. Republicans and conservative media figures routinely resort to this kind of deflection — alleging a government conspiracy — whenever a mass shooting garners widespread attention. But in this case, Rogers’ conspiratorial drivel is particularly on-brand. It both downplays gun violence and capes for a white nationalist, which has gotten Rogers in trouble in the past. The Arizona Senate censured Rogers in March for a speech she delivered to a white nationalist conference organized by far-right extremist Nick Fuentes earlier this year. “I truly respect Nick because he’s the most persecuted man in America,” she said at one point during her virtual address, according to The Arizona Mirror. She reportedly said Fuentes was “standing up to tyranny” with his white nationalist group. As I wrote at the time, the censure vote sent her into a crazed diatribe in which she accused Republicans of “colluding” with Democrats to take her down. Rogers is no stranger to political extremism. She hitched her political fortunes to a deranged conservative movement — as her Telegram post about Buffalo shows — and has cast herself as one of its matriarchs. But a “sweet grandma” she is not. Clearly.
Editorial board of the Arizona Republic says that it is time to remove State Senator Coo Coo McCrazyPants from office. Arizona Senate cannot leave Wendy Rogers' fate to voters. Investigate and expel her Opinion: Give Wendy Rogers due process. But presuming the facts hold up, the Arizona Senate has little choice but to remove her from office. Yes, even this close to an election. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opi...e-buffalo-senate-should-expel-her/9838506002/ It’s an unseemly duty for the Arizona Senate to investigate Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, with the possible consequence of expelling her from office. Such tasks should be approached with great deference to voters who chose her as their representative. We are nearing state elections that would make it the easiest of things to leave it to their verdict in the fall. But Rogers is accused of disgracing the Senate and the state of Arizona with behavior that appears to have crossed a bright red line into misconduct. Only hours after a white gunman fired upon mostly Black shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo N.Y., killing 10 and wounding three, Rogers posted on the social media site Telegram, “Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo.” Rogers implied the feds killed those people The message seemed pretty clear: Rogers was accusing the federal government of running a false flag operation in Buffalo. Whether she meant it or not, her words implied that federal law officers had either falsely staged the event or killed those people in the grocery store. Normally, you would give benefit of the doubt to a state leader who could have stumbled on her words. But Rogers has a history of mouthing conspiracy theories coiled tight with unalloyed bigotry. In March, a large majority of her colleagues from both parties voted to censure her following her appearance at a white nationalist conference in Florida helmed by known Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes. There she railed against those who would sell out America. “If we try some of these high-level criminals, convict them, and use a newly built set of gallows, it’ll make an example for these traitors who have betrayed our country,” Rogers said. “They have yet to be justly punished for the crimes they have committed.” She has previously made anti-Semitic posts Later on social media, she attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country was then under Russian invasion, calling him a “globalist puppet” for George Soros, the philanthropist and businessman. Both Zelenskyy and Soros are Jewish. “I stand with the Christians worldwide not the global bankers who are shoving godlessness and degeneracy in our face,” Rogers posted on Twitter. That remark is a common anti-Semitic trope, and if there were any doubt that’s how Rogers swings she also shared a picture on social media of herself next to a dead rhino branded with a Star of David. The Senate is right to investigate Rogers, to give her due process. But if the facts hold up, and in this case they are simple and highly compelling, then she is unfit for office and to represent her district and the state of Arizona. Senate must act on this despicable conduct Those were real people who were gunned down in Buffalo, our fellow countrymen and women who left behind loved ones stricken with grief. To exploit their tragedy to push her crude conspiracies is so bereft of decency it can’t be tolerated. The Arizona Senate needs to defend itself, to defend the institution from Rogers’ fevered mind. Her words echo the ravings of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who tortured the grieving parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School by claiming that shooting was a false flag – that it never happened. Those parents sued Jones for defamation. If Rogers cannot credibly defend her conduct, the Senate has to act and will need a super-majority. This can’t be left to voters. The state of Arizona through its elected representatives needs to say no to the vile conduct in its midst. If the Arizona Senate is to enjoy any future respect, it has to stop Wendy Rogers right now. It has to prove to all Americans and especially our Jewish and African American brothers and sisters that Arizona will not give ground to such poisoned ideas. This is an opinion of The Arizona Republic’s editorial board. What do you think? Send us a letter to the editor to weigh in.
Let's see the latest about what the unhinged QAnon, MAGA, election fraudit promoter, Wendy Rogers, has been up to. Oh, she is on Telegram putting out a hit on the purported architect of the QAnon conspiracy theory for not being aligned with her fraudit narrative-- asking the "Groyper army" to take him out. I guess Ron Watkins is not extreme enough for Wendy. Ron Watkins files an ethics complaint against pro-Trump election truther -- alleging she put his life in danger https://www.rawstory.com/ron-watkins/ Ron Watkins, the man purported to be an architect of the QAnon conspiracy theory, filed an ethics complaint against Republican state Sen. Wendy Rogers for a post she made about him on social media. Watkins’ complaint stems from a February post by Rogers on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app favored by conservatives, in which she asked the “Groyper army” to “hit” Watkins. Rogers was asking her fans and allies in the “groyper army” to go after the QAnon conspiracy theorist turned Congressional candidate because he had alleged Rogers, a Flagstaff Republican who has built her political brand on spreading lies about the 2020 election, was involved in some sort of “backroom deal” that was preventing some equipment from being examined for alleged election fraud. There is no evidence of such a backroom deal. The self-styled online “army” that Rogers sought to rally to her aid is a collection of white nationalists who favor online trolling tactics. Their goals broadly include normalizing their extreme and racist views by aligning them with Christianity and so-called “traditional” values. “I wish to submit a formal ethics complaint and ask that you commence an ethics investigation into Senator Wendy Rogers to determine whether she is fit for service to the people of Arizona due to a pattern of behavior that is unbecoming of a Senator,” Watkins wrote in an email to Ethics Committee Chairwoman Sine Kerr that was also sent to the other 29 senators. “I have been included in her online attacks and will list the details here, along with a history of actions that call into question her ability to faithfully execute her duties in a way that brings honor to the State of Arizona.” Watkins initially filed the complaint as an email, not as a signed and notarized letter as required by the rules of the Senate Ethics Committee. He has since submitted a complaint that follows those guidelines, he told the Arizona Mirror. Watkins’ complaint alleges that, in trying to mobilize the “groyper army,” Rogers put his life in danger because of his Asian-American heritage and because “someone in this group would interpret this post to mean a ‘hit’ on my life.” The complaint also mentions Rogers’ other ethics complaints that have been brought against her including her comments about the Buffalo shooting, a former staffer she allegedly mistreated, her censure and her antisemitic social media posts. Although he said in the complaint that he was fearful of the groypers, Watkins has repeatedly associated with prominent Arizona groypers. For instance, Kyle Clifton, who has promoted white nationalist Nick Fuentes as well as used the Neo-Nazi term “blood and soil” in Instagram posts, has posed alongside Watkins for photos. Clifton, along with anti-LGBTQ activist Ethan Schmidt, both joined Watkins to file a frivolous lawsuit against Gov. Doug Ducey for his “failure to protect the border.” They were joined by a woman who believes AIDS is a hoax and the Earth is flat. Watkins was also interviewed by groyper Greyson Arnold, who has used his social media pages to post memes lauding Nazis as the “pure race” and lament the American victory in World War II. He also called Adolf Hitler a “complicated historical figure,” and was present at the U.S. Capitol insurrection on January 6. Watkins has boosted the Telegram accounts of both Arnold and Clifton. Before all three were banned from Twitter, he also boosted their Twitter accounts. Before QAnon, many came to associate Watkins with an online image board called 8chan, which was later renamed 8kun. Watkins didn’t create the site — its founder was Fredrick Brennan, who would later cut ties with the website — but he became its administrator after his father, Jim Watkins, purchased it. The site has become a hotbed for hosting extremist and illicit content. It has hosted child porn, and white supremacist mass shooters have used it as a platform to spread their manifestos. The Christchurch shooter in New Zealand said that he frequented the 4chan and 8chan message boards where far-right and white supremacist rhetoric was prevalent, and directly linked to other real-life hate crimes. The website also promoted antisemitism, at one point creating a cryptocurrency for users to boost their posts with a program they called “King of the Shekel.” Watkins did not respond to questions about his interactions with Arizona groypers. Rogers did not respond to a request for comment about the complaint by Watkins. Six days prior to Watkins filing his complaint, Rogers and Rep. Mark Finchem both endorsed Watkins’ opponent, Eli Crane, in the primary election.
You're a statist. Regardless of how crazy a politician presents themselves, unless they have committed an actual crime, you don't get the right to determine whether or not the should be removed if they were properly elected to office. I was just having the exact same argument with another moron (just as dumb as you) who was suggesting a democrat that just came out suggesting that there should be violent resistance if the Republicans win in November should be removed. Vote them out. Otherwise, if they commit a crime, remove them. You don't get to remove someone because you don't like what they say, because the next time that slope will get more and more slippery. Piss off, statist.
Yes — we understand that you enjoy it when politicians or their press secretaries raise online mobs to take people out. Somehow you support this abuse. However many people in this country see it as both dangerous and completely unethical to put hits out on people.
Put hits out on people?? Someone hired a hitman to kill another? Please show that - because I certainly don't support it. If you're being hyperbolic (big surprise) and talking about attacking someone's credentials online, hell, you do that every day around here, ya bloody hypocrite! You're the king of character defamation when someone doesn't conform with your narrative.
In an era of violent individuals being triggered by false information on the Internet gathering weapons and attacking individuals and businesses — you somehow are claiming politicians urging people online to hit someone is not a threat? Let’s walk through the hundreds of violent examples of QANon/MAGA extremists riled up and carrying out terrorist acts. Shall we start with the QAnon pizza parlor in D.C. that was targeted. And then walk through the endless list of examples. Bottom Line — to rational people — politicians and their press secretaries raising mobs on social media to attack, torment and harass people is both completely inappropriate and anti-democratic.
Dude, you're a clueless jackass. Politicians have been using euphemisms to show they want tough opposition to the other side forever. Just because lunatics have lost their mind and start taking these as words from a prophet and acting on them isn't the speaker's fault. I could - quite easily - show you endless examples of the left doing the exact. same. thing. Over and over again. So unless you're going to lobby for a return to sensible rhetoric, you'd best load the bus of "criminals" up with all of those that violate your sensibilities, and not just the ones that don't agree with your political ideologies. Statist.